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Cynthia Erivo and Damson Idris among stars in Children of Blood and Bone trailer
Author Tomi Adeyemi has distanced herself from the blockbuster film based on her novel of the same name.

Kiwi kids online: Parents fear AI’s dangers, rising sextortion risk
Nearly half of Kiwi children in chat games have messaged strangers.

G2A launches AI support agent called Dave for sellers
The rollout should ease support bottlenecks for sellers as the tool handles surges in game-release enquiries across 180 countries.

Billionaire ordered to fix second structure after building un-consented jetty
The existing jetty was replaced but, like the seawall, this work was carried out without building consent.

Southland’s ‘hyperscale AI factory’ is two years away, but if it was here today we’d have issues
A New Zealand power company and Singapore-based infrastructure firm have plans to build a huge, power hungry “AI factory” in Southland. Politicians aren’t sure if that will be good.

Why you might soon be driving on streets made from trees
One Kiwi start-up thinks it’s cracked the formula to harness the strength and pliability of trees to pave our streets

NVIDIA deploys Vera CPU to speed chip design tools
Chip design checks could run up to 50% faster after early tests with Cadence and Synopsys tools on NVIDIA's Vera CPU.

Payward buys Magic Labs wallet business for onchain push
Businesses will gain embedded self-custody tools as Payward folds Magic Labs' wallet infrastructure into its B2B platform for onchain services.

Claude chats showed up in Google Search. Here’s how to keep yours private
It’s one thing for ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to train their models on the data we give them, or for AI chatbots to store memories of our conversations for future reference. But having our AI chats appear publicly on Google Search? That’s not something any of us bargained for. Yet that’s...

Laughter and tears at Dame Penelope Keith's funeral
Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth says the service at Guildford Cathedral was "deeply moving".

Hack The Box names new Chief Technology Officer
The cyber training firm is scaling for AI-era threats and international growth as it adds a new Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.

The forgotten middle: They can afford the mortgage, they just can't buy a home.
152,000 households could qualify for this hidden home ownership pathway, but most don’t know it exists

A new round of regions is here. Choose your champion.
It’s a battle of the weather in this round, with the sunniest and windiest spots in Aotearoa. Who are you voting for?

Kody was buried before his family arrived to say goodbye. Now they want answers
The owners of a German Shepherd who died at doggy daycare Dog Manners are questioning what they were told about his death

Doctor's $180,000 student loan standoff ends in deal
His brother allowed to leave too after negotiations over almost $500k of unpaid loans, interest and penalties

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OpenAI finds ChatGPT shifting tasks across job roles
OpenAI's data suggests smaller firms may be feeling the biggest change, as staff use ChatGPT to handle tasks once passed to other teams.